How to Release and Transform the Patterns That Shape Your Reality

And the reality of the human experience is that a fundamental level of our awareness appears to not only be acting as the screen, but also the projector, movie, light, and sound. Everything seems to be appearing within this totality of awareness.

The way we use that consciousness—the way we direct our awareness—produces profound and immediate changes in the atoms and molecules of our bodies. Science also shows us that our consciousness affects the material reality around us. As our consciousness changes, so changes the world.

We’re constantly creating our own interpersonal reality, but we don’t realize that we’re doing this. And if you don’t know that this is going on, and you’re not consciously aware of the impact of your attitudes and expectations on other people, the same patterns will keep repeating themselves over and over.

It’s important to remember that when doing any good spiritual practice, you are going against the grain of much of your conditioning, so it takes some real patience and consistency to establish new ways of being and responding. The mind only knows its old and familiar patterns of conditioning, and although painful, the mind will reflexively return

The more we are present, the less we find the pattern useful and attractive. Our identity begins to shift from the pattern to presence.

Your consciousness is actually experiencing your mental model of reality, not reality itself.